Interplanetary Dust

Dust in interplanetary space has many faces: dust originating from comets and asteroids, and interstellar dust sweeping through our solar system. These three components have a genetic relationship: interstellar dust is the solid phase of interstellar matt

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Eberhard Grün Bo Ä. S. Gustafson Stan Dermott Hugo Fechtig (Eds.)

Interplanetary Dust W i t h 242 Figures Including 4 Color Plates, and 46 Tables

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Professor Eberhard Grün

Professor Bo Ä. S. Gustafson

Max-Planck-Institut für K e r n p h y s i k

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Professor Hugo Fechtig

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Cover picture: A wedge of interplanetary dust. The dusk twilight sky (pink) towards the northwest shows zodiacal light (blue), framed by the Pleiades (upper left), Comet Hale-Bopp (upper right), and Mercury i n Aries (left of center above the horizon). This photograph was taken by Marco Fülle, 5 A p r i l 1997,18:50 UT, from the slopes of Stromboli (750 Meters above sea level), Sicily.

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